Two cars were driving along the coast. Zheng Wenjie squinted his eyes and looked at the setting sun outside the window. The golden light shone brightly on the sea.

"Father...when can we get to Izu?" Mitsuki yawned and wiped her eyes with a silk scarf and asked.

"We've arrived in Izu." Makoto looked at the car in front of him, holding the steering wheel and continued, "But judging from their appearance, they probably want to go directly to the holiday home."

"Because the earliest rumor about the murder tape happened in this holiday home."

Mitsuki exclaimed, "Isn't this just a rumor? Are you really going to that holiday home? Besides, since your special agent team has already investigated the murder videotape, you must have investigated this place as well, right?"

"Maybe he wants to stay in that vacation home today. After all, it's already dark." Makoto said.

Mitsuki looked at Makoto in the rearview mirror and pouted, "Are you just going to watch Nozaki and that woman kissing each other? And getting in the same car? Even if they've broken up, that's too disrespectful of you, isn't it?"

"No, it's because it really shows disrespect for you to still be with that woman after breaking up. What's the point of being with that woman? I really don't know why you didn't refuse."

"Well, didn't Zheng Jun refuse? Why don't you blame Zheng Jun?" Makoto said with a smile.

Miyue lifted her hair beside her ear and turned to look at Zheng Wenjie: "Why would my father refuse? Nozaki is your ex-boyfriend and your partner and has nothing to do with us. The only relationship between us and Nozaki is that he is asking us to help him."

"Ah, but I was somewhat happy when he begged us." Mitsuki laughed and then immediately put away the smile on her face and looked at the rearview mirror: "But it absolutely has nothing to do with you. It's definitely not because he is your ex-boyfriend."

Makoto smiled nonchalantly, looked into Mitsuki's eyes in the rearview mirror and said, "Yeah, Mitsuki-chan's words make me feel that Mitsuki-chan cares about me."

"No way!" Mitsuki snorted and looked at Zheng Wenjie: "Father, why do I feel so happy...so happy when I see him begging us? Although it may be because of Makoto, it is definitely more because I feel happy."

"Ah! How can Mitsuki-chan call me sister directly?" Makoto exclaimed.

Zheng Wenjie looked into Meiyue's eyes, thought for a moment, and said, "Many people who meet you in this situation would probably feel very comfortable, especially when they don't like that person."

"Because we are stronger and bigger than Nozaki, there is an unequal relationship between us. If it were a boxing match, it would be like contestants of different weight classes never meeting each other."

"Because of inequality, you feel happy because you are stronger than him, you are on the side of the strong, and he is the weak one who is carrying a burden that is about to crush him, and we are his only lifeline."

Mitsuki nodded thoughtfully.

"Zheng-kun... Why do you make it so complicated?" Makoto was a little speechless, and then said: "And I don't agree with what you said. Why is it the vast majority of people? It should be a small number of people. Mitsuki-chan is a person with a strong possessive desire and weak emotions towards strangers, so she is like this."

Mitsuki frowned and stared at Makoto who was driving in the driver's seat.

Makoto sighed and continued, "Here I go again, it's that feeling. When we first met, Mitsuki-chan was very friendly to me on the surface, but in her heart she had ill intentions towards me."

"And when I met Zheng Jun, Mitsuki-chan gave me the feeling of naked malice, so I kept teasing Mitsuki-chan, wanting to see what you would do."

"When I could sense that you were about to lose control, Zheng Jun spoke up to stop you. Then your hostility towards me weakened and it all showed on your face."

"Mizuki-chan you really are... you smile when you have malicious intent, and you show your true emotions when you don't really have any malicious intent."

Miyue took a deep breath and leaned against the car mat, then turned her head and looked out the window: "Why are you saying all this? You also said that I have no ill will towards you now, but if you tell me, I will be unhappy and want to..."

"Because I don't want Mitsuki to become a cold person!" Makoto interrupted, "I want Mitsuki to be able to express her feelings freely like a normal person, instead of wearing a false mask on her face like when we first met."

Seeing that Mitsuki stopped talking, Makoto asked Zheng Wenjie, "Zheng-jun, what do you think? Am I right?"

Zheng Wenjie withdrew his gaze from the window and looked at Mitsuki, reaching out to smooth her bangs: "So Miss Makoto just wants Mitsuki to stop wearing a mask and directly express her emotions?"

Makoto nodded: "Yes, Mitsuki-chan is not actually a bad girl. After we got to know each other, she would care about me and stand up for me. So why do we still have to let her wear a mask? And why can't she express her emotions directly as she pleases?"

Zheng Wenjie couldn't accept what he heard, and he didn't understand it. After thinking for a while, he said, "I understand what you mean, but I don't understand what you mean. Isn't Meiyue just following her heart now? What's wrong with wearing a mask? Why do you have to show your emotions directly?"

"When facing a stranger you don't like, putting on a mask and smiling while getting along with him is the way ordinary people survive in society, right? Just like Miss Makoto, aren't you the same?"

"Nozaki-kun proposed to bring along a woman who was also cursed. You were unwilling in your heart, or you were very unhappy, but you did not express it directly. Instead, you agreed to his request, didn't you?"

Makoto was silent for a while, and then he turned into the mountain road following the car driven by Nozaki in front of him, and suddenly asked: "Zheng Jun has never given birth to a child, right? Or rather, he has never raised a child."

Zheng Wenjie hummed but didn't say anything, wanting to hear what Makoto wanted to say.

Makoto let out a breath before continuing, "At Mitsuki-chan's age, she should still be studying in school, playing and laughing with her classmates. She's still just a child."

"Why should we let her be like an adult now and express her likes and dislikes, hates and dislikes directly? Once she grows up, she will never be able to go back."

Zheng Wenjie was speechless. He had never thought about Makoto's idea, because Zheng Wenjie believed that after finding Amaterasu in Japan and Xufu's sealed body and head, and finishing all the things he wanted to do, as long as Miyuki did not betray him, Zheng Wenjie would bite Miyuki and turn her into a zombie.

Therefore, Zheng Wenjie never thought that Mitsuki would grow old, get sick and die like an ordinary person. What Makoto said made sense to Zheng Wenjie, but it did not apply to a future second-generation green-eyed zombie.

Zheng Wenjie didn't care what Meiyue wanted to do or whether she wore a mask or not. It was just her choice. It was harmless to Zheng Wenjie and there was no reason for him to interfere with her.

Without hearing the two people in the back seat reply, Makoto continued, "What's more... Mitsuki-chan's childhood was not good, and it's not too late to become good now. Isn't it good to be like a normal person with more good thoughts than evil thoughts?" "More good than evil thoughts? You're a Japanese... forget it." Zheng Wenjie interrupted and continued, "Ms. Makoto, do you know who you are in my eyes?"

Makoto was stunned for a moment and then asked, "Who?"

"A loser." Zheng Wenjie continued calmly, "A person who cares about other people's feelings and is kind-hearted is a loser in my opinion."

"Listen to me." Zheng Wenjie stopped Zhenqin from retorting and continued, "You have suffered a lot of injuries. These injuries prevent you from having children and being a real mother."

"Yes... and you still care about that bastard Nozaki. It was him who cheated on you and had a child with another woman while you were having a relationship, and he broke up with you because of the child, but what about you? You actually still care about his feelings." Mitsuki seemed to have figured something out and continued:
"Since I was a child, I have been laughed at and insulted by children of my age and even adults. They said I was the child of a murderer. Why did they have evil thoughts towards me?"

"My mother is a murderer. What does it have to do with them? They don't even know the name of the person my mother killed."

"And my biological father, why did he abandon me? He blamed me for my mother's murder? He was obviously the real reason for my mother's mental breakdown!"

"Makoto...you think what you said is for my own good, and I will thank you, but I don't want to. I don't want to wear a mask to protect myself as you said."

Mitsuki finished speaking in one breath, took a breath and leaned her head against the cushion before muttering to herself, "I also envied Tomoko, she could laugh when she wanted to laugh, cry when she wanted to cry, and curse when she wanted to curse, but I don't need to be like her."

Makoto slammed on the brakes, and the car driven by Nozaki turned around the mountain road and disappeared in front of them. Makoto gripped the steering wheel tightly, and finally sighed helplessly, started the car and followed.

Zheng Wenjie smiled and said, "It's very difficult to put your own thoughts into other people's minds, let alone you."

"Makoto, you are a kind person but you are also jealous of your sister Kotoko. But just like you said, your good thoughts outweigh your evil thoughts."

"So you've been injured all over, but you haven't gained anything. Your sister is still a mountain that blocks out the sun for you. When others see you, their first reaction is not your name, Makoto, but your sister. They all think you are Higa Kotoko's sister."

Makoto patted the steering wheel and said, "Zheng-kun... stop talking. What you said is all sophistry and twisted logic. It's just that Mitsuki-chan trusts you more than I do, so she can directly agree with what you said."

Zheng Wenjie smiled noncommittally and continued, "If it weren't for me, you would have died last night. You may not care about your own life, but what about your sister? She cares about you very much. Do you know what she said to me?"

"What?" Makoto instinctively looked at the rearview mirror and met Zheng Wenjie's smiling eyes.

"She said...if I ever thought of hurting you, she would take my life just like the Pakumo took Hideki's life. She is willing to kill for you."

"I think to be able to become Japan's number one exorcist, Higa Kotoko must have suffered a lot and saved many people, because she has many more scars than you do. She is also a kind person like you."

"But she is willing to kill for you. What about you? Are you willing to kill for your sister? Or, do you know what your sister will do after you die and lose you?"

Zheng Wenjie looked at the dark sky outside the car window: "You can sacrifice yourself just to save a stranger, but do you care about the people who truly love you? Even if you know that your sister will go crazy after you die, will you still choose to sacrifice yourself just to save others?"

Makoto opened his mouth, but couldn't say a word, but his eyes were already red.

Meiyue looked at Zheng Wenjie with approval and said, "I will only care about my father. I won't care about other people at all, because only those who care about me are worthy of my care."

Zheng Wenjie smiled and calmly looked at Makoto's red eyes and continued, "So I said that you are just a failure in my eyes. You don't care about the people who truly love you, but you care about the lives of strangers."

"Just like your ex-boyfriend Nozaki, he decisively chose to break up with you because he had a child. What about you? Just like Mitsuki said, you still care about Nozaki's feelings."

"But what about Nozaki? Why did he come to your house with the videotape? Why did he play the videotape for you to watch? Because he cares about the child. For the sake of the child, he would rather drag you into it. But he knows, and you know, too, that if you watch this videotape and get cursed, Ms. Makoto, you will die."

Zheng Wenjie sneered and continued, "If I wasn't there, he would still show you the videotape and drag you into this mess, because you still have a sister. He knows very well that your sister would also get involved in this mess for you."

Zheng Wenjie looked at the reflection of Makoto's tears in the rearview mirror and said, "After knowing that this was a murder tape, you actually knew why Nozaki did this, didn't you?"

"So... this Nozaki is trying to harm us in order to save his own family?" Miyuki stared at Zheng Wenjie with wide eyes.

Zheng Wenjie pinched Miyue's nose and said, "So you, don't let your emotions guide you in the future. You saw Nozaki only thinking about standing up for Miss Makoto, and you foolishly followed Makoto and got cursed by the videotape."

"...Kill him." Meiyue looked at Zheng Wenjie and said seriously: "Just like my father said, only those who care about me are worth my care. I will also kill those who want to harm me."

"Mi...Mizuki-chan." Makoto called Mizuki's name with trembling lips and shook her head.

Seeing Makoto's uneasy look, Zheng Wenjie smiled smugly and continued, "Ms. Makoto, everyone should help themselves first, then help those who love them, and finally help those they want to help."

"Ms. Makoto, you care about other people's lives. I understand and approve of that, but first you have to be strong enough. If you want to become strong, you have to give up the things you value and concentrate on helping yourself first."

Zheng Wenjie stretched his neck towards Makoto, leaned close to Makoto's ear, and looked at the holiday home not far away, as well as Nozaki and Matsuko who got out of the car parked at the door.

"Makoto, let Nozaki-kun pay the price first. Do you want to see him get what he wants, and then live happily with this woman and child?"

"Not only did he betray you, he chose to hurt you and the people who cared about you for his own sake."

"This shows that he doesn't really care about you. If that's the case, he should pay the price, right?"

Makoto parked the car behind Nozaki's car, looked at Nozaki and Matsuko standing by the car waiting, and nodded slowly. (End of this chapter)